Richie Clark Partner
Telephone: 020 7614 2507 Fax: 020 7614 1407
Email: rclark@foxwilliams.com
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Departments: Corporate, Corporate Governance, Energy & Natural Resources
From a professional view
Richie Clark is a partner in our corporate department and heads up the firm’s capital markets group, which was recently named Capital Markets Team of the Year 2010 by Corporate Intl Magazine.
Richie advises companies and financial institutions on a broad range of corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, listings, financings, public takeovers and increasingly on activist investor and corporate governance issues. He advises clients in a variety of industry sectors including technology, natural resources, renewable energy, healthcare, media and financial services and has particular expertise in understanding the issues facing international companies entering the UK market to seek funding or make acquisitions.
Representative transactions include:
- Constellation Software Inc. acted for this Toronto Stock Exchange listed technology company on its unsolicited £18 million mandatory cash offer for AIM-listed Gladstone plc
- Just Retirement plc – acted for management of AIM-listed Just Retirement plc on its £220m takeover by way of a scheme of arrangement by Avalon Acquisitions Limited, an acquisition vehicle backed by private equity giant Permira
- Northleaf Capital Partners – acted for TD Capital Private Equity Investors on the spin-out of its global private equity investment firm to create Northleaf Capital, Canada’s largest independent global private equity fund manager and advisor managing over $2.8 billion in private equity fund commitments on behalf of institutional investors, including TD Capital.
- San Leon Energy plc - acted for nominated adviser on the AIM admission of this Irish oil & gas exploration company with assets in the Europe, Africa and North America, which had a market capitalisation of over £100 million on admission to AIM
- Coastal Energy Limited – acted for broker on $16 million secondary fundraising for this AIM and TSX-listed oil & gas producer with assets in Thailand
- Renewable Power & Light plc - AIM admission and £40 million placing, as well as a subsequent £10 million placing, fundamental disposal of two dual-fuelled power plants in the Northeastern United States, and two reductions and returns of capital to shareholders
- Cardinal Resources plc - admission to AIM and $20 million placing; $20 million acquisition of Rudis Drilling Company; $50 million PIK Note financing with a US hedge fund; strategic investment and management agreement with Colombian-focussed Condor Exploration and $35 loan facility; $71 million sale of its Ukrainian assets to the Kuwait Energy Company
As well as being a director of the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce, Richie writes for numerous international business publications and has been quoted in the press on topics related to UK public markets and corporate governance issues. Richie is also a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN).
Prior to joining Fox Williams, Richie was a partner at McCarthy Tétrault which he joined in 2001, after spending several years at Ashurst.
Richie received a first class B.A. with distinction from Mount Allison University in 1991 and an M.A. from Carleton University in 1992. He received his LLB from Dalhousie University in 1995 and was called to the bar in Alberta in 1996. Richie moved to the UK in 1997 and was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1998.
From a personal view
After coming to the UK for what Richie thought would be one year, it is now fourteen years and counting! His lovely English wife and three young boys may have had something to do with this. He has kept in touch with his Canadian roots by playing ice hockey with the London Devils and serving as a director of the English Ice Hockey Association’s Recreation Section. Although Richie has managed to teach his boys to skate, he has followed the “When in Rome…” mantra and spends his weekends shuttling between Harpenden Colts Football Club (where he also coaches) and Harpenden Rugby Football Club.